Although they have made no secret of their relationship on social media, pretty Mayte who is a big name herself in their native Chile, has been reluctant to talk about their love affair in public.

But she opened up about her feelings for the frontman in a gushing interview with the Chilean version of glossy magazine Hola, revealing: “Today I’m sharing my life with a marvellous person.”

Arsenal fans have pleaded with Sanchez to ditch his girlfriend because they claimed she was making him “fat and lazy”.

And although Rodriguez quashed growing speculation in her homeland she and Alexis are about to start a family, she insisted: “The day God gifts me with a child, I’ll be the luckiest woman to give life.

“But I haven’t been nor am I pregnant, I’m just living a very beautiful moment in my life, enjoying the present and following my instinct and being faithful to my feelings.”

The 28-year-old also revealed she had met Alexis at a barbecue after breaking up with her actor boyfriend-of-five-years Tiago Correa.

She told the magazine in an exclusive interview which took part after a photoshoot on Panama’s Pacific Coast in which she showed off her shapely body in a bikini: “I met Alexis when I was getting my life back on track.

“I just lived the moment as I felt it. I flowed and we took the time we needed. We were getting to know each other and then it became a more serious relationship and we told our loved ones and the relationship became public.

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“Things followed their course naturally like in any relationship. I think the most important thing is to be happy.”

Asked about her lengthy relationship with Tiago Correa, which in Chile is rumoured to have ended after he cheated on her, and quizzed on whether she is a woman who forgives infidelity, she added: “What I don’t forgive is lies.”

She also rubbished claims she was living with her footballer boyfriend, insisting: “I’m just enjoying a relationship with a partner, going slowly so we can get to know each other like any other couple.

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He was dubbed a Don Juan after being named as the lover of a list of women including former gymnast-turned-TV dancer Valentina Roth and Brazilian model Michelle Carvalho.

Valentina, 27, told how during the player’s first season for Arsenal how she dumped him after catching two of his pals videoing them having sex from his bedroom closet during a tryst at his home in the Chilean capital Santiago.